30 Day Baseball Card Challenge

Thursday, August 1, 2013

One Contest Ends & Another Begins!

Sorry about the delay guys. I took a quick trip up to Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver and just landed in San Jose a little over an hour ago. If you're wondering if I made any hobby purchases on my trip then you obviously don't know me that well. Of course I picked some stuff up!

But I'll save that for tomorrow's post (actually... it'll have to wait until Monday's post). Tonight I want to quickly announce July's contest winner and kick off August's contest.

Let's start off by revealing August's Post of the Month:

Five bloggers left comments on my A Few Steps Closer... post. So The Lost Collector, Commishbob, Play at the Plate, Greg Zakwin, and Eric Bracke each received four additional entries.And now for the final randomization:

And the winner of Griffey, Hammer, and The Big Hurtprize package is...

Congratulations Commishbob! Email me your mailing address and I'll get this shipped out early next week. My email address is listed to the left under my profile.

Okay, now that we have that out of the way. Here's what I'm giving away this month:

Several people were interested in The Bad News Bearsteam set. So this month I'll be giving away a complete six card set of our favorite Bears to three different people.

As usual, there are three ways to enter:

A. Respond to today's question of the day.

B. Plug my contest on your blog.

C. Leave comments on my posts throughout the month of August.

On September 1st, I'll enter everyone's names from this post into the list randomizer over at www.random.org.

If you plug this contest on your blog, I'll add your name two additional times.

And as a final bonus, I will randomly select one of my posts from the month of August using the same website. Anyone who left a comment on that particular post will have their name added four additional times.

Tonight's question of the day:

What's the worst sports movie you've ever seen?

I've already asked people their favorites in the past and have seen several bloggers ask the same question, so this time I switched things up.

I'm absolutely exhausted and I can't even begin to answer my own question... but I look forward to reading your responses in the morning.

Once again... congratulations Commishbob! And best of luck to everyone who decides to participate in this month's contest.

Space Jam is the best movie of all time...that guy up above is wrong. I had my class watch it on the last day of school this past year and they loved it almost as much as we teachers did...awesome flick.

That said...Fever Pitch. I love the Red Sox and I loved 2004 and I love Jimmy Fallon and I love Drew Barrymore more than most people (she's in a lot of bad stuff so it's hard to love her completely haha). But wow if that movie wasn't awful. Terrible, terrible film.

Remember the Titans. I know I'm the only one, but it's sappy, cheesy, and has EVERY sports cliche imaginable. It's a movie of caricatures (the racist white team captain, the strong new black star who just wants a chance, the fat white guy who sings Motown, the surfer guy from California who doesn't understand a community of racial prejudice, the white guy's girlfriend who doesn't come around as quickly as he does, etc) and not of characters, and the scene at the end where the black guy is in the hospital visiting the white guy and the nurse comes in and says "Family only," and the white guy tells her "Don't you see that this man is my brother?" Blech. It's the most ridiculous, exaggerated, and non-believable sports movie I've ever seen, and apparently, it's based on a true story.

So, no, I'm not going to go the easy route with Air Bud or MVP: Most Valuable Primate. Those are campy family films that are supposed to be outside the realm of reality. I'm going with Remember the Titans. A movie that is supposed to be a serious lesson on judging a person on what's in his heart instead of what's on his skin, but ended up being a predictable, overdone, cram-the-good-vibes-down-your-throat kind of movie that I just can't take seriously.

Yes, I know "the black guy" and "the white guy" have names. I'm just showing the point that the movie follows the same exact format that every feel-good movie involving social change does. It's a good message, but it gets lost on the fact that this same movie has been done a hundred different times by a hundred different people. It's just that this time, it's about football!

Whoa, a nice surprise to return to from a road trip! Thanks, Fuji, I'll send my addy on to you.

Oh, worst sports movie I've seen? The Babe with John Goodman. I'll give the Air Buds ad Little Ginats t flicks because they are aimed at kids, but The Babe was a 'serious' movie. And it was absolutely dreadful. I enjoy John Goodman normally. He was great in Argo and Flight but he made an awful Ruth.

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I've been collecting cardboard off and on since the early 80's. I'm presently collecting. But who knows what the future holds in store for me.
One thing is for certain... I'll have my blog to help relive some of my favorite hobby moments.